This tool is designed to help the workshop facilitator distinguish among the tasks, operations and suboperations of an occupation. It should be used as a frame of reference during the analysis of tasks and operations (Step 3 of the job analysis).
The guidelines presented in the following pages will help the workshop facilitator correctly gather and organize the information needed to produce a table of occupational tasks and operations. But the analysis of tasks and operations constitutes only one part of the job analysis. Care should be taken to avoid focusing too much on the tasks and operations, but also to take into consideration a larger set of variables inherent in the work situation.
A host of information should therefore be gathered on the aspects involved in the task analysis, such as:
complex positions, functions or situations
level of responsibility and autonomy
the categories of people with whom the worker comes into contact
the social, political, civil or administrative nature of human relations
the physical, psychological or intellectual environment
particular tools and equipment
limitations and constraints
specific requirements
other aspects